I had to say good-bye to the bestest puppy in the whole world today. Daisy Buchanan aka Daisy Doodle, 2004 -2013 Rest in peace my Daisy Doodle. I will miss you. My heart is breaking.
Nearly Wordless Weds, My Girls via GIMP
I felt like playing with graphics and making a digital photo frame for some images for our girls. First I found an image I wanted to use as a frame in The Strand Magazine from 1894: ORIGINAL ALTER IMAGE INTO FRAME I used a white brush in GIMP to white out the text. Then […]
Enemy of the Little Gal – Koch
Remember when the little woman stayed at home, was painstakingly coiffed, had perfectly mannered children, always had dinner on the table just as the hubby walked in… Neither do I. But the myth is there and the new plutarchs have a vested interest in convincing the American people that if we go back to that […]
The Horrific Cost of Stupid – Guns
Corporate Financed Terrorism Today I listen to yet another day of media coverage of yet another mass shooting. 13 dead. Around 300 people are shot every day in the U.S. by guns. For a crowd-sourced data site that lists the basic statistics for named gun deaths in the US starting with the Newtown massacre go […]
Posting When I Don't Feel Like Posting
It is Sunday, day 15, of September NaBloPoMo, so I’m going to post something, but even as I write these words I have no idea what this post will end-up being about. Today I have mainly thinking about my friend Daisy who happens to be a 10-year-old dog that isn’t doing so well. I posted […]
Happy Chocolate Friday!
That is right, in honor of today being International Chocolate Day, I have decided to totally forget that it is Friday the 13th. It is officially Chocolate Friday! Photo credit: aophotos from morguefile.com My favorite chocolate cake recipe was my Mom’s but I was sworn to secrecy on that one, so this link to […]